Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2009
The history of psychiatric journals is outlined from their inception in the late eighteenth century. In the development of psychological medicine they serve as intellectual markers of the complex relations between institutional psychiatry, neurology, the psychosocial sciences and the psychotherapeutic movement. Their current status is briefly discussed.
Based on a contribution to a symposium on Medical Journals and Medical Knowledge held in London in October 1990, under the auspices of the British Medical Association and the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.